totalitarian-of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life; totalitarian theory and practice; operating in a totalistic fashion.otalitarian. 1. Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority: authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical.
Photo gallery: The 1933 assassination of Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak. Eighty years ago this week, Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was shot in an assassination attempt on Franklin D. Roosevelt during an event in Miami, Fla., in 1933. Mayor Cermak would linger for weeks before succumbing to his injuries. Link to this photo.
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was assassinated the night of April 14, 1865. He was attending a performance at the Ford's Theatre in Washington DC with his wife and two companions. John Wilkes Booth came up behind Lincoln, who was in the presidential box, and shot him in back of the head.